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Harlem Stomp!
A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (National Book Award Finalist)
Description
This Black History month, celebrate the Harlem Renaissance! This National Book Award Finalist takes a breathtaking, in-depth look at the art, poetry, and fiction that came out of one of America’s most culturally rich periods.
Determined to make a new start for themselves at the dawn of the twentieth century, many African Americans joined the Great Migration and headed North. For those who landed in Harlem, New York, it was a time of blossoming in art, literature, and politics. Influential African American artists and activists took center stage—and captured the attention of the world.
Lavishly designed and illustrated, with photographs, historical documents, and full-color paintings, this book is a time capsule of poetry, prose, and political rhetoric, introducing the amazing lives and work of notable figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sargent Johnson, and Marcus Garvey
Determined to make a new start for themselves at the dawn of the twentieth century, many African Americans joined the Great Migration and headed North. For those who landed in Harlem, New York, it was a time of blossoming in art, literature, and politics. Influential African American artists and activists took center stage—and captured the attention of the world.
Lavishly designed and illustrated, with photographs, historical documents, and full-color paintings, this book is a time capsule of poetry, prose, and political rhetoric, introducing the amazing lives and work of notable figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sargent Johnson, and Marcus Garvey
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Praise
"This energetic, elegantly designed volume documents the artistic, literary and musical surge of black culture in Harlem."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The volume is a visual feast....Together, the words and images bring this extraordinary period to life."
—School Library Journal, starred review
"With a beautiful open design, this illustrated history combines the politics of the black metropolis in the roaring 1920s with.... Detailed chapters on the 'blazing creativity' of performers, writers, visual artists, and intellectuals.... Wonderful for browsing."
—Booklist, starred review
"This energetic, elegantly designed volume documents the artistic, literary and musical surge of black culture in Harlem."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review